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"All the essays....are....informative and lucidly written."--English Literature in Translation 1880-1920
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In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of the fin-de-siècle years. That history is here shown to inaugurate many enduring critical and cultural concerns, with sections on Degeneration, Outcast London, The Metropolis, The New Woman, Literary Debates, The New Imperialism, Socialism, Anarchism, Scientific Naturalism, Psychology, Psychical Research, Sexology, Anthropology and Racial Science. Each section begins with an Introduction and closes with Editorial Notes which carefully situate individual texts within a wider cultural landscape.
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From the beginning of the 1880's, the end-of-century experience generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future of civilization and of the human race itself. Read the first page
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From the beginning of the 1880's, the end-of-century experience generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future of civilization and of the human race itself. Read the first page
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
The Reader in cultural history was very well-presented. The student is introduced to the major, sometimes conflicting, debates of the nineteenth century fin de siecle.
The fin de siecle debates featured in this book centered on 'degeneration' and 'progress'. While some writers felt that the late nineteenth century was an exciting time to live in - new journalism, literature, social relations - other writers were opposed to these phenomenal changes.
Ledger and Luckhurst bring this debate to life and have organised the arguments in an interesting and comprehensible manner. The introductions they provide for each chapter give useful overviews of an otherwise complex debate.
While this book is dedicated to the nineteenth-century fin de siecle, it becomes clear that some of the ideas presented in the book are not solely confined to the 1880s and '90s. Debates such as 'degeneration' and 'progress' appear in our modern press today and this suggests that fin de siecle is not just a period but a mindset. This book is therefore a must for anyone interested to know more about our own society.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Although this sounds like an advertiser's blurb, I really am convinced this reader will be useful for any literary/cultural course that covers the last decades of nineteenth-century Britain. It carefully selects a variety of often conflicting but always representative material that is otherwise available only with difficulty, from an extract from Nordau's "Degeneration" and William James's review of it to a part of Karl Pearson's "National life from the Standpoint of Science". I'll be using it for three widely differing Victorian courses this year, concentrating mainly on gender, consumerism, imperialism and "race", and am confident I shall use it for next year's courses too.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
One of the best Fin de Siecle anthologies around
19 Feb 2001
Fin de siecle is one of those fascinating topics in literary and cultural studies. However, it is, just like postmodernism, a very hard concept to precise. Ledger and Luckhurst help to solve this problem thanks to a complete selection of texts that represent 13 cultural phenomena of the time. Probably the text would require some accompanying texts if the reader is not familiar with the topic, but it offers to the more especialized reader a very complete reference to those texts that are fundamental to understand the time but do not appear on the literary canons. A must for anyone interested in the end of the nineteenth century.
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